Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-07-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS

FHk oIner evening While three farm L.
borers employed on the farm OF Jacob
Geiser, three miles west of Leavenwortk.
were at work in the barn they became in
| volved in a quarrel. and two of them at
/ tackled the other with pitchforks, driving
him from the barn and into hedge fence,
| where they continued their assault, and
! the result was that their victim was terri
bly, mutilated about the head and body,
| from the effects of which it was thought he
| would die, while his two assallants fed
! the country
Roy NANCE, who shot and killed Willis
| q. Forney, in Butler County, in June, while
assisting an officer to eject HIM from has
| (Nance's) land and who was committed
| to jail by the examining justice without
| bail, was recently taken before Judge Val
| entine, Of the Supreme Court, at Topeka,
| upon a writ of habeas corpus and released
| on $4,000 bail. The defendant is brother
of Ex-Governor Nance, of Nebraska
PENSIONS lately granted Kansas veter-
| ans: Christopher NJ. HUH. of Blaine; Sam
| uel McDavItt, of Wichita; James Kirby, of
Haysville; Robert P. Sharp. of Glen Elder;
| Allen K Hays, of Sedan; James N Buck
| ley, of LinconvIlle; Isaac NJ Miller, of
| Manhattan; Sarah J. Jones. of Leby; the
| minor children of Robert and to EliZabei b
| Arnold Duncan, of Fort Scott; Pharrabee
Lay, of Malvern; Fannie Thayer, OF Cliff
! ford; George kownig, of LeaVenworth;
Lewis H. Allison, of Lawrence; Hiram A.
| Wisner, of Plainville; James Bliss, of
| lola; Martin Whelan, of Leavenworth;
| George Mackenheim, of Wichita; Green B.
| Traye, of Ludell; Winston Pierson, of Der
ry; David B. Mercer, of COTS; Peter Nc
| Gill, of Leavenworth; Asa L. Morris, of
| Monmouth; William G. Mullin, of Atwood;
Joseph Cater. of Waterloo; John o. Clark,
of Ellis; Edwin Bartleson, of LeaEenworth;
Clinton Lefevre, of Sedan; Charles w.
Mum, OF Coffeyville; Thomas Oliver, of
Empoi1a; Thomas b. Asher, of Browns
Grove; John S. Dehart, of Bslpre; William
Padon, of Coffeyvllle; Henry Niemohler, of
Stitt, and William Atwater, OF lakewood.
A DELEGATION from Kansas recently
went to Washington to protest against sub
hitting the proposed experiments in sor-
ghum sugar manufacture to the control Of
Prof. Wiley, of the Agricultural Bureau.
1t is alleged that Prof. Wiley, while con-
Quoting experiments In Kansas last year,
used his best efforts in the interest of the
beet sugar producers in Europe and that he
can not be expected TO properly expend the
$4,000 appropriated by Congress for his
purpose.
THE Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Bur.
lington & Missouri River, Kansas City,
Fort Scott q Gulf, Missouri Pacific st. Joe
& Grand Island. St Louis, Fort Scott &
Wichita, Southern Kansas, Union Pacific,
and Wichita q Western roads will give re-
dnced rates to the Varions district and
county fairs next fall. The rate will be
one and one third fare for the round trip
for reasonable distances not exceeding
fifty miles.
JOHN SHOwALTER, a farmer, about sixty |
eight years of age, living seven miles south |
of Newton, committed suicide the other |
day by shooting himself with a double |
barreled shot gun. He had been complain !
ing of i'll health for some time, and after |
starting his wife on an errand to a neigh |
gun over the top of a chair, placed the muz- |
zle against his breast and pulled the trig- >
ger. He was dead when found few MIN J
utes later. He had set the bed on fire to
cover up all traces of his act.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL BRADFORD has re-
ceived reports from number of counties
10 the effect that agents of express com .
panies throughout the State are delivering
a great deal of ltq Tor TO individuals, under .
what is regarded as questionable circum-
stances. The Acknowledgement proposes
to prosecute them the same as other GRIM
lnals for violation of the Prohibiofy law [
unless the practice ceases.
GUY BANKER, a boy about eight years ola, =
recently fell into cistern at Russell and
was drowned. There was only two feet of
water IN the cistern.
AT a recent election to vote on the Ques
tion of issuing $4,000 in bonds Tor building
two school houses at Kinsley not mega
tive vote cast.
JUDGE GUTHRIE of the district court at
Topeka, recently allowed the temporary in-
junction restraining the Governor from
proceeding further in the organization of
Greedy County until the hearing of the case
on its merits.
ABOUT eight o'clock the other morning
five teams containing a squad of thirty x
people drove into Garden City from Blanco
County, Texas, en- route to Washington
Territory.
A BOY named Benjamin A. Fuller, who
working for Squire James King, in
Johnson County. was kicked to death by d
mule the other night while out in the or
chard getting some apples. The mule
grazing in the orchard and it is supposed
struck the boy wien he was not looking.
He was not missed Tor couple of hours,
but when fou ID he was dead.
Two negroes recently went fishing at
WIGHT a, and about seven O'Clock in the
evening one OF the two was seen going up
the creek alone, and investigation showed
that Will N Parrish, the other man, had
been 5 aooed tnree times In the head and
then drowned in the creek. His skull was
crushed over the right eye, and his pockets
turned inside out.
The other night while d. P. Elder, of To-
peka, was trying to keep cool on his front
porch and his family was away at con-
cert, q thief entered the rear OF his house
and stole a roll of money containing over
81 OOO. which his wife kept, as she sup
posed. securely secreted.
JUDGE CRoZIER, of the Leavenworth dis
trlct court, recently heard arguments
on the motion OF the attorneys of
Brandon & Kirmeyer to have the in
junction suit hled by the county at
torney to restrain them from manufac-
turing malt liquors removed to the United
States Court. The motion was the
grounds that hlrmeyer. one-third owner, |
was a resilient OF Missouri; that when the ,
firm began brewing, in 1862. the business
was legal; that. while in operation, the
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